tailieunhanh - Doubling farmers’ income by 2022

Indian agriculture is passing through difficult times due to two consecutive drought situations in several parts of the country, thereby resulting into wide spread distress among farmers. | Doubling farmers income by 2022 International Journal of Management IJM Volume 11 Issue 1 January 2020 pp. 9 14 Article ID IJM_11_01_002 Available online at http ijm JType IJM amp VType 11 amp IType 1 Journal Impact Factor 2019 Calculated by GISI ISSN Print 0976-6502 and ISSN Online 0976-6510 IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed DOUBLING FARMERS INCOME BY 2022 Dr. Srikala Assistant Professor Department of Commerce amp Business Management Chaitanya Institute of Science amp Technology Deemed to be University Warangal Telangana India. ABSTRACT Indian agriculture is passing through difficult times due to two consecutive drought situations in several parts of the country thereby resulting into wide spread distress among farmers. Past strategy for development of the agriculture sector in India has focused primarily on raising agricultural output and improving food security amp did not explicitly recognize the need to raise farmers income and did not mention any direct measure to promote farmers welfare. The net result has been that farmers income remained low which is evident from the incidence of poverty among farm households. Low level of absolute income as well as large and deteriorating disparity between income of a farmer and non-agricultural worker constitute an important reason for the farmers suicides during 1995 to 2004 and is also forcing more and more cultivators particularly younger age group to leave farming. This can cause serious adverse effect on the future of agriculture in the country. To provide a solution for all these in February 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a scheme Doubling farmers income by 2022 by spelling out 6 points strategy. Keywords Poverty Income Non agriculture workers. Cite this Article Dr. Srikala Doubling Farmers Income by 2022 International Journal of Management IJM 11 1 2020 pp. 9 14. http IJM JType IJM amp VType 11 amp IType 1 1. .